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CHARLES H. GOOKE, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO J. B.

LWIATHEWSON & 00., OF SAME PLACE.

LOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 316,118, dated April 21, 1885.

7 Application filed October 15, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, OHARLEs H. COOKE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and Improved Locket, of which the following is a specification.

Heretofore lockets and analogous articles have been formed with lids or covers hinged 10 to the body of the locket, said covers being closed and held by a snap.

The object of my invention is to avoid the outlay of time and expense in constructing hinges and snaps, and also to avoid the constantly recurring liability of such construction to get out of order in consequence of the loosening and oftentimes the loss of the pintle and the wearing of the snap, and also to secure a closer fit of the cover to exclude dust and water.

My invention consists of a locket provided with a screw cap or cover on one orboth sides, accordingly as the locket is single or double, thereby greatly simplifying and cheapening the construction.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front elevation and a cross-sectional edge view of the body of the locket. Fig. 2 shows a plan and a sectional edgeview of the screw cap or cover.

0 Fig. 3 shows a plan and a sectional edge view of the miniature or inner case of the locket. Fig. 4 is a cross'sectional view of the locket.

Similar letters denote like parts where they occur in the drawings.

A is a body, which is provided with screwflanges a a on one or both sides, accordingly as the locket is single or double. B is the screw cap or cover, providedwith the internal screw flanges, b b, adapted to engage the screw -fianges a a of the body A to close the locket. G is the miniature or inner case, provided with a glass, D.

It is obvious that my invention may, with equal advantage and usefulness, be applied to pins, buttons, studs, and a great variety of articles of personal wear and adornment.

I am aware that it is not new to construct a button of several parts, the shank and disk being held together by a pin, and a screw-cap being provided adapted to be screwed to the edge of the disk, and to form a recess between the surfaces of the disk and the outer surface of the cap, in which changeable fabrics may be inserted for producing buttons of different designs, and I do not broadly claim such construction, my invention being limited to the article of manufacture hereinafter claimed.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As anew article of manufacture, the locket consisting of a tubular-shaped body portion having its front and rear edges screwthreaded, and the caps constituting the front and rear of the locket adapted to the screwthreaded edges of the body portion, and removable therefrom, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a body, A, provided with a screw-flangaa a, on one or both sides, with a miniature or inner case, 0, and a removable screw-cap, B, substantially as shown and described.

CHAS. H. COOKE- Witnesses:

OSCAR LAPHAM, MARsToN LINCOLN. 

